Hi,

Love your channel. I'm looking in to buying my first NAS. Right now I have a home lab with OMV but I'm looking in to something more stable and easy to set up and maintain. What I'm looking for is a NAS for streaming media at home trough SMB, back up photos from phones and manage some files between the home members (3-4 users). For the time being i believe that storage around 4-6 TB should be more than enough. On top of that I would like to be able to run some containers such as Transmission, Radarr, Jellyfin, maybe Nextcloud (i don't know whether there are benefits vs DSM), so I will need something with a bit more RAM or the possibility to expand. One of the main concerns that I have are around noise as the NAS will be placed in my living room so I would prefer it to be as silent as possible .
I was thinking about buying a second hand device and was looking in to Synology DS220+. So I would love to hear your thoughts and also to ask should I look in to other brands?

Hi,

My old DS413J has died. t was used for file, photo and video/movie storage.

For the replacement I would like to make use of Plex.
I am considering Synology 920+ or moving over to QNAP.

1. Do I need to be concerned with Synology's strategy re supported drives. Only Synology drives are officially compatible with 920+? Is there a risk that they restrict to Synology drives only in the future?

2. Do I have to buy Synology and transfer the hard drives to get back up and running or can I transfer data to a new Qnap from the synology backup?

Many thanks. Your site has been very informative.

Regards,

Oliver

I'm looking to move my cloud storage to a local option as I'm sure you know Google has changed their storage rates/policy recently. NAS and hardware are a whole new world to me. I feel like I'm shooting blind in the dark. I was looking at the DS1522 + Thanks

Hi!

First thanks a lot for this great website, I found so many relevant information about my next NAS!

I would like to buy a NAS in which I would install HomeAssistant and other VMs (not too much, just a couple or 3). I taught the best budget / performance solution could be the Synology DS423+.

I would like to upgrade it with this RAM: hma82gs6cjr8n-vk n0 ac

and this ssd: WDS200T2X0E

Do you think they are compatible? About the RAM I'm almost sure it will work, even if the website says 4 gb only (I saw your video about RAM upgrading solutions), but talking about the m2 SSD I can't find any info on Synology website or other websites.

Thanks in advance!

Have a great day!
Gabriele

Hi,
Is the D4ES02 Synology DDR4 4GB 3200 ECC compatible with the DS423+?

Hello there, your channel are really incredibly great.
I'm looking for a Home NAS to play photos and videos on my TV, Phone and computer using a decent NAS.
I need it to be not too noisy so that I can place it in the leaving room and woluld like to avoid as much as possible the zzzz sound when airing a movie or populating photos.
I have selected a shortlist with prices in Euros :

DS223 - 290 euros
TS-231P3-2G - 344 Euros
TS-433 - 426 Euros
TS-262 - 446 Euros

Please let me know if you see better option but I wanted to have something quite evolutive for the next years as well.

Thank you.

Hi I hope this email finds you well?
I need an advise - My Drobo 5N died on me ... all my 4x4TB RED WD 5400 Nas drive is now dead (or Drobo slowly stopped working?) Right now - Total gone :-(
So I need a replacement (new NAS)
I love the 4 bay - But could properly live with 2-bay?
I have an old (20yr old) Buffalo that I use as a backup NAS (2x2TB)
I did look a lot at the TS-464 and wanted some SSD (Working from home since 1995) so noise is an issue for us (Wife from Nott. works here with me). I also have a 2-bay ShareCenter as 2. backup.
My Drobo ate 2 disc - leaving me with 2 - But now I can't boot it up :-(
Can I use SSD and what brand? And model to use for NAS?
Can I just load the TS-464 with M.2. (Or is that like Drobo a "Buffer disc?) What brand and model to use? and size?

My guess is that 3 disc is better than 2 for data-protection?

Hope to hear from you soon.... Have a nice Pentecost

All the best
Peter

morning. I have several NAS devices (synology, WD and SEagate. I have 8 pc's all identical with no PC holding any data, only software.

My NAS devices are split between Primary (A) secondary (B) and tertiary © all connected.
The primary is realtime replicated to the secondary. I'me getting evidence that my network is being hacked how can I isolate the AS from the router yet allow the pc to access both routerr and NAS

I have a large collection of thousands of DVDs, blurays and even some VHS, I really want to digitise my collection for local playback without degrading any of the discs and I've done some calculations, it's estimated between 100-200tb, so I think I'd ideally aim for the higher end given I do intend to expand indefinitely.

It's not an environment where speedy access is overly problematic for the most part (I guess seeking through a large bluray would potentially be a minor issue) so that likely at the very least rules out tape storage, but I don't need to buy two 100tb exadrives by numbus either. I'm a little lost but would rather not spend an inordinate amount of money on it if at all possible. Though I'm pretty sure storage in the UK costs around 2.5x as much as almost any other country in the world too...

Hi, Should I buy the TS-464 8gb version, I don’t thing you can up grade the Ram, does the OS/System use 4gb of the 8gb. or try and find the TS-464 4gb which you can upgrade to 16gb. I will not be running any VMs. Is the 8gb version the newer version and is better than the 4gb. Thank you for a very informative video, thanks Paul